Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 10

She probably perished in the sea; or, to whatever shore the white bull may have carried her, it is now so many years ago, that there would be neither love nor acquaintance between us, should we meet again.

Who acts: sister, shore, we · What happens: perish, carry, be, meet · To what, where: sea, white bull, neither love

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, shore, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perished	nsubj
2	probably	probably	ADV	_	3 perished	advmod
3	perished	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 perished	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 carried	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 carried	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 or	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 shore	case
11	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	12 shore	det
12	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carried	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bull	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bull	amod
15	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carried	nsubj:pass
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 carried	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 carried	aux
18	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 perished	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carried	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ago	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ago	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 ago	cop
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 ago	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 years	amod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ago	obl:unmarked
27	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 perished	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 love	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 be	mark
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 be	expl
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 be	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 love	cop
33	neither	neither	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 love	amod
34	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 perished	parataxis
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 acquaintance	cc
36	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 love	conj
37	between	between	ADP	_	38 us	case
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 acquaintance	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 meet	punct
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 meet	aux
41	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 meet	nsubj
42	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 love	conj
43	again	again	ADV	_	42 meet	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 perished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perish	past	sister		the sea		probably property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	carry	may · perfect · passive		the white bull			to whatever shore	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Value
3	is	present	shore			now; year	ago property	tree rules
4	is a	infinitive		neither love nor acquaintance between us				tree rules
5	meet	should	we			again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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